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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
A Remarkable Idiot.

A dispatch from Providence, r. l., to the New
York World says: One of the most remarkable
instances of idiOcy, or luuacy, to be Witnessed
In any part of the world may be seen i'm an old
farmhouse in the town of Smithned, about
seven miles from this city. Almon Smith nearly
40 years Of age, is fastened with strap and man
aclc in n small room, and usually naked and has
been kept in this situation for many years This
may seem incredible, but it is nevertheless Il
fact, and, what may seem equally Incredible is
that nothing better can he done with the man
He has been an idiot from birth. or at least from
infancy. He has no intelligence whatever not
even that OF the lowest stage OF the brute crca-
ton, aud does not even know his mother who
from babyhood up, has been his devoted attend.
ant.
The man is well formed, his head is Of the
round type and the brain apparently well de-
veloped. He does not talk, bat utters shreks
and cries at intervals and sometimes tears at
his head with his hands as if suffering pain
lie is kept fastened to a staple in the floor not
from fear of his doing violence TO any one to
which he has never shown u disposition. but
from apprehension that, in his utter helpless
ness, he might hurt himself. His cries can some
times he heard for a quarter of mile, but as
the house stands at some distance from the
travelled highway the public are not DISTURBED
The State authorities investigated the case
some time ago and came 10 tine conclusion that
the man was better off where he was than he
would De in n Innate asylum. In the summer
time he IS sometimes taken ont and fastened to
a tree for fresh air The case is especially sin
gular for the reason that The unfortunate mans
utter docy, He Is the owner Of small prop
erty and is under the guardianship OF a relative
the family being one OF tho oldest and most re-
spectacle In the State.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
PERSONAL.

PARNELL appears TO be gaining reputation as
an after-dinner speaker
TUE Marquis OF Salisbury is a sleepy looking
genius who is leonIiie when stirred up.
JUICE Hilton keeps tweuty-six horses at
Saratoga and yet he walks great deal in fine
weather.
GEN. BoULAGEa's DAUGHTER is about to be-
come n nun and his enemies say il is q shrcwd
device of his TO curry favor with the Clericals.
TIE Boston Herald says the weak point of
Edgar FawCctt's eulogy of "Ouda, y in Lippiil-
coft's is that he gives her more exception and
apology than praise.
Ex-Gov. JOHN LEE CARROLL, of Maryland.
goes to New York for the summer. He has Just
returned from Europe, where he says Mr.
Cleveland is very favorably regarded"
NJ CARO-, the French philosophical lecturer
was exceedingly popular with large class of
fashionable women in Paris, who used TO flock
To hear him expound Schopenhauer as they
would to sce a sensational play. "Carolnes'
they were called.
JEROME RAvEL, the great pantomimiSt en-
gaged ly the kiralfys 20 rewritc some of their
productions to be played on the American stage,
IL not the R2vel who attained such prominence
as the famous comedian in France. Rave the
COmodian, died ten or twelve years ago.
Henry EoNru;E first established n bureau for
reading newspapers and making clippings from
them for statesmen, politicians actors, news
paper men and the public generally. This sys-
tenn, which hp originated IN London, has been
successfully put in practice in America
Ex.MAYoR CARTER HARRISON has given 81, 800
to the Michael Reese hospital, of Chicago, TO he
invested in the perpetual funds Of the nsttu-
ton, in the name and in memory of his deceased
wife. MArgaretta StearnS Harrison. In accept
inr the gilt. the directors determined also TO
place Mrs Harrison's name on n memorial
tablet in the hospital.
4 FEW DAYS AGO II was nOiSed about Boston
that Mrs. Clara Ersknc Clement Waters was
going 10 have an addition made TO her house.
containing n chapel in which Babu f. Mohini
Chatteri would conduct Buddhistic services.
Great waS The sensation created thereby. But
now II is explained that Mrs Waters intends
merely to eularRe her dinng-room, hospitality,
not Buddhism being her motive
TINS is W. S. Gilbert's latest pun: George H.
Prougbton writes. We were going down the
siiveI'y Thames from Blslam Abbey. lady Of
the party was attracted by n snowy little cot
tdge, with a tiny lawn sloping TO the river.
Isn't that what they call bijou residence, Mr..
GilhertT she asked Gilbert looked O moment
with. his twnkling eye Yes, madam. and
there's the b-Jew on the lawn and the b-Jewess
in the garden"
THE ST. Paul Giobc speaks In this way of Col
Pat DOMAIN: Col. Peter DOMAIN. journalist,
professional beau and accomplished cosmop0-
lite, is indeed a lucky fellow. But a few months
ago delving Ia honduras mines and trailing
through Central American iungles hundreds OF
miles from civilized pctticont; now the &c
/ credited Chapcron and beau extraordinary To a
bevy of beautiful and accomplished young
women who fly from the heated South to enjoy
tue cooling breczgs of Minnesota
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
BORING A SQUARE HOLE.
A Machine Which Will Do This to Be
Manufactured at Detroit.

From, the Detroit NetCs
Among the many manufacturing enterprises
seeking permanent location in Detroit is that
which will engage in the making of square hole
boring machipes An Iowa genius devoted
fourteen of the best years of his life 10 solve
the problem Of boring a square hole, and finally
succeeded. His patents were disposed of to J.
F. CCrtice, of Fort Wayne, Ind company
was organized at Wooster, O.. and the last two
years have been devoted to perfecting the ma
chine, which was at first cumbersome and some
mirahly adapted to the purpose for which it is
intended. In the words of an admiring me-
chGnic, that old problem of squaFing the circle
has finally been solved
The machine is on exhibition in the basement
of No. 30 Griswold street. and attracts great
deal Of attention. Carpenters, builders,
contractors and capitalists are all in to see it
work, and all pronounce il an invention that
will meet with universal demand. 1t is simply
an oScillatng head with chsel edges and pro
jectmg lips, which cut out the corners in ad-
vance of the chisel The balance of the ma
chine is an almost exact counterpart Of the
old-styled boring machine. Mr. Curticc'S pur-
pose is to interest Detroit capital and establish
an immense factory here, which would he the
base of supplies for the United States and Can
ada. It's sale is assured upon it's merits and as
it cuts gains and tenetS as well as mortices, the
demand is greater than can be met. It will
cut a two by four mortice in from four to five
minutes, and doing it with perfect accuracy,
that a carpenter cannot possibly complete in
less than half an hour. Everything points 20
the moving of the factory to Detroit and very
large increase of its capacity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
The COwbOV,

He came from the land of the setting sun,
This blazing star of the first degree;
A cowboy bold, all ripe for fun,
The home of the tenderfoot to see.
His eyes were black and his hair was long;
The rim of his hat was soft and wide;
And his gorgeous pants were of buckskin strong;
With wonderful fringes down the side
His mustang was kinl1y as ever YOU saw;
To the martial iingling of his spurs
The small boy listened with breathless awe;
He was terror to city ours
A pistol was thrust through his leathern belt
And knife repOSed in his horSemans boot
Every inch King he Doubtless felt;
A Western hero, right on the shoot!
He ogled the ladies day by day
As he gracefully ambled to take the air;
Oh. be was daisy, this cowboy gay;
One of the brave who deserve the fair.
What sensitive maids, in his mind were seen
HOpelesSly pining for him in vain,
What ScalpS of SWANS, with jealousy green,
Adorned this conquering lord of the plain.
He welcomed the tanglefoot, hot and strong;
And terrible oaths this creature sworel
For deadly conflict he seemed to long,
His thirst was excessive for human gore,
Till he stirred up a gentleman, mild and slim,
Who welded daily bloodless pen,
But 1.-The sand" was there all the same, in him;
And he went for the braggart right there and
then.
nc IcdCIctl lOI Iiiiit CDWDoJ TlilSieJS lONR,
And pulled him down from his wild mustang;
lie wiped the street with the buckskins strong
While the spurs resounded with merry clang-
And he left him wreck did this man of might
With the broddcloth suit and a hat of silk;
And the small boy scoffed at the buckless wight
AS ne limped to the lookup weak as milk.
No more with the cattle the cowboy dwells;
His pistol and knife in the pawn shop rest;
The mustang tipcart vile proDe4s;
He will gallop no more in the far Southwest.
And his master has studied his lesson well,
Let roughs and rOwdies of this take note,
swell.
And the man may be brave in a broadcloth
coat.
JOHN S. ADAMS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
FRANK JAMES.
How the Women Flock Around to
Buy Goods OF Him in Dallas.
From the San B'ancisco Ecal


From, the San Francisco Examiner.
'The reformed bandit Frank James, late of
Missouri, is the latest and biggest attraction in
Dallas" This was remarked to an Examiner
reporter yesterday by Thomas Witherspoon, a
adshouldered Texan, at the Russ. Frank
is the mildest-marncrcd man you ever saw.
You would tkinl, he was Il preacher to look at
him and listen to the soft cadenccs of his voice.
But you just ought to see how the women flock
about him to buy dry goods II beats the world.
It's Mr. James this and Mr. James that-a per-
feet love Of man some OF them caIl MN
| don't mean that all the women visit him at the
store and dote upon him, but big per cent. or
them dO-the morbidly curious and mentality
off. Frank James does not look like shooter,
nor bad man. He is of medium size only very
quiet, and his black hair is lately beginning to be
well tuged with gray, as his moustache. He
lives in an unasSumiBR way IN Dallas, with ms
wife ana two small boys. j he boys are not
over 12 or II years Old. The family seems a
very happy one The store he works in is owned
by Worthington, Jones & Co. These people
got him away from the st Louis shoe store by
offering a bigger stipend. IL is understood IN
Dallas that he gets 500 month. lie ought TO
have more, for in the past four months he has
just about doubled the firms business 1t was
a lucky stroke, their getting him Frank James
is reported to be poor People thought for
long time he had a big lot of wealth that he mad
made in train and bank robberics and hold-ups
Of one sort and another. that was buried, or at
least stored away somewhere. but if so it has
been kept secret Nobody knows where it is.
Sometimes they have thought maybe Frank
James had glided incOgnitO to various towns
like st. Paul, Omaha, San Francisco, or other
towns West and South and bought property in
the names of his wife or sons Dallas people
keep wondering all the time what has become
Of the swag. OF course there is a percentage of
them, though, who say they don't believe he
has any money-that he was more sinned
against than shining.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

The testimony is accommodating that the
convicts in some of the camps are inhu
manly treated. The report of Dr. West
moreland, the penitentiary physician, re
spccting the condition Of the convicts Mt the
Bondurant & Jopling camp is calculated to
create something of a sensation throughout
the State 1t is not the purpose Of the State
that convicts shall be overworked nor that
thdy shall bcfurnished insufficient food. and
it is an outrage of the worst sort for the
lessecs to inflict heavier punishment upon
them than are imposed by tie courts.
The Legislature having begun this in
quiry into the management OF the convict
camps and the treatment of the convicts,
should make it very thorough There
ought to be 10 favor shown to the fessees.
Some of them doubtless are men of influ-
onco and will try to keep damaging disclos-
urcs from being made, but the Legislature
win not do its duty unless it gets at the
whole truth respecting the abuses alleged to
be practiced in the camps.
Lot some of the Convicts be called as wit
nesses--the most fearless among them-and
let them be examined without permitting
them TO hear each others stories. II their
statements, in the main, agree there will be
some reason for believing them.
We do not believe in dealing with the
lcSsoes unjuStly, but we do believe in making
them live up to their contracts The men
and women who wear prison stripes are
human beings, and should be treated as
such. Tho greed of the lessecs should not
he permitted to bring the good name Of
Georgia into disrcpute with Christian pco-
pie everywhere, or to cause Georgian to
hear with shame the convict system of his
| State discussed. There is way TO secure
humnne treatment for the convicts. Let il
he taken without hesitation whenever it is
necessary TO do so.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
The Morning News for the Summer.

The Morning News for the Summer.
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can have the MORNING NEWS forwarded by
the earliest fast mails to any address at the
rate of 25c. a week, 81 for a month or 81 30
for three months, cash invariably in ad
vance. The address may be changed as
often as desired In directing change care
should be taken to mention the old as well
as the new address.
Those who desire TO have their home paper
promptly delivered to them while away
should leave their subscriptions at the Bust
NESS OFFICE. Special attention will be given
tomake this summer service satisfactory and
to forward papers by the most direct and
quickest routes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

Tho courts often bring queer people TO
light. A few days ago in Cincinnati, D
woman was asked in court why she had
changed her religion. She replied that she
aad changed it because, being sepa-
'ated from her husband, she wished to
avoid meeting him in heaven. She evil
icntly was under the impression that the
Inherent kinds of religion separate people in
heaven as effoctually as they sometimes sop
hrato them in this world.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
Tho Latest Irnmigrants.
From t'le New York Ereniag SUI

Among the queer people who land at Castle
Garden are the Firms. Ethnologists speak Of
their language rs allied TO the Monaghan and
there il suggestion of the Mongol in the short,
squatty forms and raund faces Of many of the
arrivals. Others again ara as light. blue-eyed,
and fair haired A. the true Svedes.
Mr. Groulunder, who Is himself a Finn, and
has an office near the Battery, told the writer
that the Fnns had only begun of Int years 10
come over in anything like considerable NUN.
bers. Those who immigiate are mostly from
the north of Finland whore the peaslntry find
II harder work % make q living than In the
southern section. He says that the Firms were
perfectly contcnted uudor Russian rule. They
were permitted local selfgovernment. and had
comparatively cGsy time Of II politically.
They usually 20 to the Northwest on arriving IN
New York Nearly every Finn brings $50 OF
$50 into the country, which it may have taken
him years 10 save
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
Mr.. Barnun and Cabinet Changes.

1t looks as if Mr.. BaTnum, Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee, had
been trying tomnke change or two in the
Cabinet without being requested to do so by
Mr.. Cleveland. The London correspondent
of the World cabled q conversation to that
paper a day or two ago, which he had with
Gen Patrick A Collins, of Boston, who is
at present in London. According to this
conversation, Mr.. Barnum asked Gen. Col
Inns, just before the latter left Boston,
whether he would accept the office of Secre-
tary Of War if it were offered TO him, and
Mr.. Collins replied as follows: ''Nir. Bar
mum, what led you to suppose that had an
appetite for secondhand food, or would
wear secondhand clothosW
a World representative called on Mr.
Barnum at his Connecticut home on last
Tuesday and asked him whether he had sug
gested to Gen. Collins the possibility of an
offer to him of the War Office Mr. Bar
mum declined to be interviewed or to make
any statement. The Presidents private
secretary was asked about the matter, and
he said that if Mr.. Barnum had offered the
War Office to anyone he had done so with
ont any authority from the President. He
also said that the President did not cOntem-
plate making any change in that office.
A very close friend of the President is re-
ported to have said that Mr.. Barnum has
habit of distributing patronage in his own
mind and upon his own responsibility. If
Mr. Barnum is afflicted in that way he
ought to seek remedy for his affection at
once. He is in danger of getting himself
into trouble and of getting other people
into annoying situations. He is no doubt
a well-meaning man, and the President
would doubtless like to crafty him to the
extent Of letting him believe that he is very
influential with the administration, but if
he lacks discretion and Judgment the Presi-
dent will have to perform the disagreeable
duty of showing him how little his influence
really is. The Boston people, however,
doubtless feel grateful TO Mr.. Barnum for
bringing out the fact that Gen. Collins ap-
petite is not the kind which relishes second
hand victualS and that the General scorns
secondhand clothes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
Pressure of a Woman's Hand.
Eron AZ Nm York W-orLd Denl.l

From the NetO YO1k World LDent.J
II is said Of Gen. Paine's new cup-defender
the Volunteer, that so decately poised is the
beautiful sloop that pressure no greater than
that Of "a womans hand is enough TO compel her
to yield to its influence" There are compari-
sons that do not compare. The pressure OF
woman's hand is one Of the most potential forces
in nature. 1t has turned the rudder OF this old
worlds progress more than once in its history
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
NDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SPECIAL Nor1cEs-Receiver's Notice, Joseph
Iichtenstine, Receiver Brown g. Odun, Barber
vile. Fla. Notice of City and Suburban Rail
way.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS - Help
Wanted Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale: Miscellaneous ~
STEAMSHIP ScnEDULE-Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
CHOICE PoTAToEs-A. Ehrlich & Bro.
AUCTION Furniture Sundries, etc, by
J. Mclaughlin & Son. .
GRAND EXCURSION TO BEAUFoRT-Steamer
Pope Catln
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
No Accounting For Republicans
Mouth.
Ei.onl a. lLisso,,ri RennbLicnl

From the Missouri Republican (Den,)
The Democratic candidate for Governor OF
Ohio served with distinction in the Union army.
II is safe to say, however, that John Sherman,
who never snelled of war until peace was pro-
claimed, will be deuouncing the Ohio Democrats
as traitors and rebels one of these days. There
is no accounting for a Republicans mouth.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

Jacob Allen, of Frankfort KY, who is
forty years old, says that he has never drank
drop of anything but whisky sipce he was
sixteen. Jacob will doubtless burn well if
he should be 50 unfortunate as to so down
instead Of up when he dies.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

The New York World is responsible for
the following: Colbert Balls prominent
negro politician of Philadelphia He re
Gently entered q restaurant at Atlantic City,
kept by man much blacker than he Ball
ordered sirloin steak. You can't got it
here said the duslsy proprietor, we serve
only white people Ball left the place in "A
rage, sought lawyer and will bring suit
against the proprietor" The Philadelphia
Press has a lively correspondent Mt Atlantic
City, but as yet this case or drawing the
color line has not received the Press atten-
ton. lnsincerity seems to be the Press
trump card.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

Yung Wing, Chinaman who lives in
Hartford, Conn, is again contemplating
matrimony. He has been wdowor several
years. His vito was an American lady
Yung Wing would doubtless like an hcircss
this time in order TO match yam Phon Lee,
his countryman
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
The Ohio Republican Conventions
Pledge
From the Nen York Herald Ind.


Its pledge to the Sherman boom will some
what resemble the solemn promise OF the Drlde
TO love, honor and obey the gentleman VINO mas
had the reckless audacity to ask for her hand.
She swears to obey, out with very emphatic
mental reservation which in the ordinary North
American vernacular may be translated, Il IL
be hanged if | will, though"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

A. Connecticut man has invented the verb
ITO tourize" lie is doubtless kin TO the
man who invented the verb "to funeral
izc." The perpetrators of such crimes
against the language ought to receive no
encouragement
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29
FRIDAY. JULY 90, 1887.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

In Cincinnati for the week ending July 80
there were 327 deaths. Tor the same week
in 1886 the number was ia. Such an APP
palling number Of deaths is ample evidence
Of the terrible execution done by the sun
during the heated term.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

Jay Gould's son Eddie is rapidly becom-
Ing rich man. His dealings iu his fathers
securities have been very profitable. There
is no telling what the wealth Of the young
man will DO if he continues successful until
be reaches his fathers present age.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

The Houston Post dec,9r.', hat the num-
Der of counties in Texas TIM. Il give Pro
aibition majorities ut the approaching cleo
Jon will not reach fifteen. The Post is
evidently not a Prohibition organ.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

Says the New York Times: "Wall street
lambs are something that we don't hear
much ebout these times" Perhaps the rca-
son is that Wall street wolves have devoured
al the lamhs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

Iowa has sixty-four of her old soldiers in
poorhouses Georgia is kinder TO her I'M
pensioned soldiers. None of them are in
poorhouses, although they draw nothing
rom the United States Treasury.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

In northern city, the other day, one of
the principals in a prize fight was manned
for life and the other was seriously injured.
The prize fight is a kind of sport too brutal
for civilized country. 1t ought to be sup
nreespd
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-29

A man in New York is advertising for
100 white banjo players. He doubtless in
tends TO paint them black and send them on
the road to give bad limitations Of negro
rninStrelsy